[rhelv6-beta-list] off to a slow start: was: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Now Available - Testers Wanted

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Engineering Partner Management wrote:

> Today marks an exciting milestone for Red Hat as we share 
> news of the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 
> Since its introduction more than a ...

Since this announcement, 9 days ago, no mailing list 
specific for the 7 beta has been set up.  I get a bounce at 
the expected address:
	rhelv7-beta-list-request at redhat.com
when seeking to subscribe, which I have mentioned here before

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I do not see a way to upstream 'abrt' reports for beta 
testers, other than manually filing bugzilla reports (I 
manually confirmed one earlier today as to systemd)

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I am getting build errors in rebuilding the 7 sources, after 
manually supplementing the missing -devel files

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The genesis of the following is 'createrepo'

[root at precision380-64-kvm abrt]# ls
last-ccpp        Python-2013-12-20-02:04:25-9014   
Python-2013-12-20-15:08:56-27559
last-via-server  Python-2013-12-20-02:09:35-27703
[root at precision380-64-kvm abrt]# pwd
/var/tmp/abrt

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The abrt GUI tool is missing a requirement, and is not working 
through X-forwarding

[root at precision380-64-kvm ~]# /usr/bin/abrt-applet

** (abrt:1511): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility 
bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-BWHesIzK24: 
Connection refused
abrt-applet: Failed to open connection to session manager: 
'SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined', 
notification may reappear on the next login

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The other emits error noise

[root at precision380-64-kvm ~]# /usr/bin/system-config-abrt

** (system-config-abrt:4087): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to 
accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket 
/tmp/dbus-BWHesIzK24: Connection refused

** (system-config-abrt:4087): WARNING **: Failed to load 
config for 'report-gtk'

** (system-config-abrt:4087): WARNING **: Failed to load 
config for 'abrt-applet'
[root at precision380-64-kvm ~]#

[root at precision380-64-kvm ~]# rpm -qa abrt\*
abrt-addon-vmcore-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-libs-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-addon-ccpp-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-addon-pstoreoops-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-cli-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-addon-xorg-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-gui-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-gui-libs-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-addon-python-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-dbus-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-tui-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
abrt-desktop-2.1.7-5.el7.x86_64
[root at precision380-64-kvm ~]#

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On a headless box,. I am regularly getting these

[249921.425368] xprobe_gas_x863[28621]: segfault at 211c422c 
ip 00000000004006cc sp 00007fff211c4228 error 4 in 
xprobe_gas_x8632[400000+1000]
[249923.960606] traps: xprobe_3dnow[29030] trap invalid opcode 
ip:400926 sp:7fff161ce7f8 error:0 in xprobe_3dnow[400000+1000]

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An obsoleted interface seems to be being used (by the kernel?)

[198995.115308] nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is 
scheduled for removal         

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and another

[189429.031965] cat: The scan_unevictable_pages 
sysctl/node-interface has been disabled for lack of a 
legitimate use case.  If you have one, please send an email to 
linux-mm at kvack.org.     

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We have PCI hardware detection errors with multi-port ethernet 
cards that worked in prior RHEL derived servers

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Disabling the firewalld 'breaks expectation' by also disabling 
networking !!  ouch

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As I was typing this, I get:

[253197.534025] conftest[1249]: segfault at 7ffff5f71f90 ip 
00000036a324cb95 sp 00007ffff5f71e90 error 6 in 
libc-2.17.so[36a3200000+1b6000]

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Anyway, it seems like this program is getting off to a slow 
start.  If there is a program manager watching this list, 
perhaps some 'look in' is needed

-- Russ herrold
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